I'll be presenting and helping at this event for Women in Tech on Oct 11th, 2014. Feel free to register if you're in Nor Cal. Event takes place at Microsoft in Mountain View.
http://codesssvhackathon.challengepost.com/
We have similar event taking...

I'll be providing the following session at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills in California.
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Session/2014/azure-development-with-the-visual-studio-tools
For more details on the event please refer to the following...

Question 1 : How are System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) errors surfaced in Lab Management?
Answer : These can be determined based on configuration, managing, testing, workflows and network For Lab Management, the user entry point is Microsoft...

Hi Folks,
This week we have announced REST APIs and Service Hooks in Visual Studio Online (VSO) as a preview mode.
What does this mean? It means we can open up wider integration with 3rd party applications and services. I've had a few customers...

The TFS Datawarehouse schema is well documented here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee620640(v=vs.120).aspx
As an example, let's say we wanted to get this kind of data in the following form into Excel.
We can use the following SQL...

Here are a list of short videos categorized by role, to help you get ramped up on features in a matter of minutes. Most are 10 minutes or less. Videos longer than 10 minutes are prefixed with '*'. Videos longer than 1 hour are prefixed with '**'
Topics...

Here I depict a scenario where I create two branches - both directly from Main. A specific file is modified in both branches. In one branch I change the contents and in the other it's renamed. The following video depicts how easily we can consolidate...

Feel free to register for this free event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-applications-and-software-transformation-the-opportunity-tickets-8591229599
Although the exact titles have not been...

Connect teams. Create harmony. Transform your business.
In an age of extraordinary expectations, how can you ensure every app works flawlessly, seamlessly, and elegantly on every device, all the time?
Invitation only VS2013 Launch Event at Hilton...

My fellow colleague, Willy-Peter Schaub has published some great guidance from the ALM Rangers.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2013/05/16/visual-studio-alm-ranger-solutions-catalog.aspx
Download and enjoy.

If you can you make it to Boise, ID on 10/29/2013, you're welcome to attend this event.
Quality Enablement through Agile Testing - Boise, ID
More details can be found here.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID...

If you can you make it to Tempe, AZ on 9/19/2013, you're welcome to attend this event.
Quality Enablement through Agile Testing - Tempe, AZ
More details can be found here.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID...

If you can you make it to San Francisco on 9/24/2013, you're welcome to attend this event.
Quality Enablement through Agile Testing - San Francisco, CA
More details can be found here.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture...

If you can you make it to Mountain View on 9/10/2013, you're welcome to attend this event.
Quality Enablement through Agile Testing - Mountain View, CA
More details can be found here.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture...

Hi Folks, I'll be on the road for the next few weeks starting with Portland, Oregon next week on 8/20/2013.
Questions sound familiar?
Does getting bugs fixed take too long? Inefficiencies in communicating between Dev and QA?
Why did we not catch...

The Visual Studio team really looks hard at User Voice as a means to prioritize the feature backlog. You can go in and vote for, or create requests for new features. It super intuitive to use and highly effective.
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com...

Hi Folks,
Based on my previous blog, I presented the Live Webcast yesterday (5/29/2013). In case you missed it, here are the video and deck. In case you were unable to attend or only saw parts (since there were some conferencing challenges), here's...

I will be presenting a webcast for VS Updates 1 & 2.
WHEN: May 29th @ 10am PST
This tour of new features webcast will include the following topics and more:  Agile Planning  Quality Enablement  SharePoint Development  TFS Enhancements...

So here’s an app, that’s running locally on my system.
Note, I’m running on localhost in the URL, when I hit F5.
Note you can click an image to enlarge.
Right click on the Project in Solution Explorer and select Publish...

If you are an MSDN subscriber, did you know you get free Azure benefits? This is a great way of deploying an application on a small scale, for example and getting user acceptance. You don't have to wait for IT to provision an environment. With a few clicks...